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Does your program depend up which directory it is running?

Put this line in the beginning of the program to show its directory.

Debug GetPathPart(ProgramFilename())

I wrote this simple program to see how fast certain arithmetic instructions are. I observed two different timings depending on how many spaces are between the quote marks on the line after Openconsole!!!

Note this with the debugger off.

How can this be?

On my pc 64 bit windows I get either 2.4 or ...

Application to calculate pi to arbitrary number of digits. No practical use but does demonstrate value of using threads. See program comments for further info.


;Many years ago when I used Quickbasic, I came across a program to calc pi. Of course this has no practical
;purpose, but just to fight ...

I wanted to see the timing difference between IDIV and DIV. So I wrote a simple program, looked at the assembly code and cut and pasted the portion for c=a/b into the timing loop. I changed IDIV to DIV. The compiler gave a syntax error for CQO line. I put a ! in front of the CQO to send directly to ...

Occasionally I like to view the assembler generated by PB, I use the program below and modify the first line for the program I want to view. I found this code somewhere else in the forum. Is there someway to modify the call to the pbcompiler so that the program is not executed--just create the asm ...

How about testing length of default integers. Code below shows the difference.

[/Dim a(2) ;64-bit systems each element is 8 bytes
Dim b.l(2) ;32-bit systems each element is 4 bytes like this
a(1)=-1
b(1)=-1
Debug PeekB(@a(1)+4) ;5th byte of 8 bit word
Debug PeekB(@b(1)+4) ;1st byte of next 4 bit ...

I wrote a pragram and that uses a scroll bar gadget and I wanted to signal when the value it returns changes while scrolling. So I "binded" the scoll bar and had it post an event when its value changed. Fail . Investigating I discovered that while scolling with mouse button depressed no events would ...

I am new to PB so perhaps there is a better way to do this. Also this is such a minor bit of code compared to so much else I have observed in this forum.

I wanted to display the numbers in a matrix in straight right-justified columns using proportional fonts. The standard Windows fixed fonts were ...